. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . hey are called. A part of his speech in the MurderCase is still printed in the school readers. The Dartmouth College Case is 440 DANIEL WEBSTER. 441 very famous. It was a suit whose success would have destroyed , and,after trial in the State Courts, it was appealed to the United States Supreme Court,before which Mr. Webster made his aigument. The interest was veiy great andthe details of the trial are among the most interesting in t
. Shepp's Literary world: containing the lives of our noted American and favorite English authors. Together with choice selections from their writings . hey are called. A part of his speech in the MurderCase is still printed in the school readers. The Dartmouth College Case is 440 DANIEL WEBSTER. 441 very famous. It was a suit whose success would have destroyed , and,after trial in the State Courts, it was appealed to the United States Supreme Court,before which Mr. Webster made his aigument. The interest was veiy great andthe details of the trial are among the most interesting in the history of our juris-prudence. The eloquence with which Mr. Webster described the usefulness of theinstitution, his love for it, and the consequences which the precedent sought to beestablished would involve, all contributed to make this one of the greatest oratoricalefforts of which we have any record. Sir, said he, you may destroy this little institution ; it is weak ; it is in yourhands ! I know it is one of the lesser lights in the literary horizon of our may put it out, but, if you do so, you must carry through your work ! You. DANIEL Websters home, marshfield, Massachusetts. must extinguish, one after another, all those great lights of science which, for morethan a century, have thrown their radiance over our land. It is, sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet, there are those who loveit Here the feelings which he had thus far succeeded in keeping down broke lips quivered; his firm cheeks trembled with emotion ; his eyes were filled withtears ; his voice choked, and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain thatmastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling. The court room, during these two or three minutes, presented an extraordinaryspectacle. Chief Justice Marshall, with his tall, gaunt figure bent over as if tocatch the slightest whisper, the deep furrows of his cheeks expanded with emotion,and eyes su
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